First Term Exam : My Grand mother and Lifestyle

من طرف **SAADI** الإثنين فبراير 14, 2011 2:54 pm

Read the text carefully then do the activities

The text:

My grandmother was the daughter of a farmer who lived near a country town. When she was young, she used to complain that life gave her few opportunities of meeting interesting people and offered her a little chance of going on with her education. But that was fifty years ago.

We still live in the same farmhouse. We still enjoy the peace of the countryside and the quiet of the woods, but our life is very different from that of our grandparents. Why is this? What has made our life so different? The reason is, of course, that technological discoveries and inventions made since their time have immensely extended the range of our eyes and ears. One might also claim that these inventions can bring the whole world to us in our homes.

The DVD offers us the pleasure of the best and the most up-to date dance music, and our potable telephone brings us the fresh voice of relatives who live in other continents. The web camera provide us with real photos of our mail -friends and digital TV or PC with live pictures of world cup competitions as they are happening and countless other wonders that our grandparents could not have believed.

Part one: reading and interpreting (14pts)

1- Are there any interrogative sentences in the text? If so how many?

2- Are these statements true (t) or false (f) ?

a- My grandmother lived in a town.

b-She carried on her education.

c-we are living in the same farmhouse.

d-Our grandparents believed in technological wonders.

3- Choose the best title for the text:

a- My grandmother b- Eye and ear c- Means of communication.

4- Answer the following questions according to the text:

a-Why did grandmother use to complain about life?

b-Why is life different from that of our grandparents?

c-What is the advantage of digital TV?

5- What or who do the underlined words refer to?

-she (§1) -who (§3)

6- Find in the text words or phrases that are synonyms to:

Not far from (§1) Chances (§1) till now (§2)

7- Supply punctuation and capitals where necessary:

before independence life in algeria was very difficult

8- Copy down the following table then complete it.

Adjectives Comparative Superlative

Difficult ……………… ………………

…………… ………………. The easiest

……………. better than ……………….

9- Give the correct form of the verbs between brackets.

A century ago, people (to travel) on foot or by coach. Today, most of them (to drive) cars. In the future, they (to use) flying saucers.

10- There is one grammatical mistake in the sentence, find it then correct it.

When I was in the primary school, I was used to eat at the school canteen.

11- Mark the intonation at the end of the following sentence with an arrow ( ) or ( ).

What had made our life so different?

12- Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final “s” / ”es”

Years - woods - grandparents - relatives - hopes - wishes

/s/ / z/ /iz/

Part two: written expression(6pts)

[b]Choose one of the following topics:

Topic 1:

Describe the Algerian’s life as it was before independence and as it is now.

Topic 2:

“How were your grandparents living when they were young?”

Write a short paragraph in which you describe their habits in clothes, at work and for entertainment. These cues may help you:

-Men used to dress in “barnouses” and “djelabas”, women wore “elmelhfa”.

-Women used looms to make carpets, woolen clothes. They used “helfa” to make sieves, steamers, baskets…etc

-Some men used to raise cattle, others used to work in fields and others were craftsmen (tanners, shoemakers, builders, tailors, traders…)

-Entertaining activities: watching traditional performances (“el-alfa”, “el-ghaita”, “el-alaoui”.

First Term Exam : My Grand mother and Lifestyle Quran10

First Term Exam : My Grand mother and Lifestyle Quran10